Soichiro Ito (politician)

Soichiro Ito
伊藤 宗一郎
Ito in 1982
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 7 November 1996 – 2 June 2000
Monarch	Akihito
Deputy	Kōzō Watanabe
Preceded by	Takako Doi
Succeeded by	Tamisuke Watanuki
Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
In office 6 November 1987 – 27 December 1988
Prime Minister	Noboru Takeshita
Preceded by	Yatarō Mitsubayashi
Succeeded by	Moichi Miyazaki
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office 30 November 1981 – 27 November 1982
Prime Minister	Zenkō Suzuki
Preceded by	Koji Omura
Succeeded by	Kazuho Tanigawa
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 29 January 1967 – 4 September 2001
Preceded by	Gentaro Takeya
Succeeded by	Shintaro Ito
Constituency	Miyagi 1st (1967–1996) Miyagi 4th (1996–2001)
In office 21 November 1960 – 23 October 1963
Preceded by	Gentaro Takeya
Succeeded by	Gentaro Takeya
Constituency	Miyagi 1st
Personal details
Born	(1924-03-21)21 March 1924 Ōsaki, Miyagi, Japan
Died	4 September 2001(2001-09-04) (aged 77) Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Party	Liberal Democratic
Children	Shintaro Ito
Alma mater	Tohoku University
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1940s
Rank	Second Lieutenant

Soichiro Ito (伊藤宗一郎, Itō Sōichirō; 21 March 1924 – 4 September 2001) was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1967 until his death in 2001. From 1981 to 1982, Ito was the Director General of the Japan Defense Agency.^[1]

Born in Miyagi Prefecture in 1924, he studied law at Tohoku University and served briefly as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army.

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